New documents say French troops failed to prevent the killings of Tutsis in Biserero hills.

Three French human rights organizations have called on two French military officers, Jacques Rosier, who was the commander of special forces, and Marin Gillier, the head of a squad of marines during the period of the 1994 genocide to be indicted over the Bisesero killings, Mail Online reports.  

The human rights organizations are the civil parties in an investigation launched after a case filed in 2005 by survivors of the genocide in which more than 800,000 people were killed. Last week, they came up with new documents that relate to the incident in which hundreds of Tutsis were killed in Bisesero hills on June 27, 1994. Mail Online reported that the plaintiffs charged that French soldiers promised refugees on June 27, 1994 that they would rescue them, but failed to do so until three days later.

Mail Online reports that during those three days hundreds of Tutsis were chased and massacred in the Bisesero hills. A source close to the case file reportedly told media organs that the judges believe that "the discovery of refugees in Bisesero on June 27, 1994” by French soldiers "was known to the French authorities, and before June 30." One non-commissioned officer who testified is quoted as saying that, "our bosses, in particular Rosier, gave us the line that it was the Tutsis who were killing the Hutus," something Rosier firmly denied.

Gillier in his evidence reportedly said he did not know who was killing who "in the middle of the day" on June 27, 1994 during "a reconnaissance mission to try and understand what was happening". This version was contested by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Remy Duval who had gathered testimony from Tutsi witnesses from June 27, which he had immediately passed on to his superiors by telephone and by fax. He is quoted to have written, "There may be about 2,000 hiding in the woods," "they are in an extreme state of destitution, nutritionally, hygienically and medically, they were hoping for our immediate protection."

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused Paris of complicity in the genocide because of its support of the Hutu nationalist government that carried out the mass slaughter. French authorities have repeatedly denied the accusations and insists that French forces had worked to protect civilians.